Back Issues: Patricia Highsmith

Over at the Book Club, where we’re reading Joan Schenkar’s biography of Patricia Highsmith, there’s a post about Highsmith and The New Yorker that might be of interest to readers of this blog. Who turned Highsmith down for a job at this magazine? Which famous New Yorker writer recommended Highsmith to Yaddo, where she wrote “Strangers on a Train”? All is revealed.

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